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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23 and 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tom's attitude when he first takes the stand?
(a) showing off
(b) angry
(c) frightened
(d) sullen

2. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
(a) spirits of the dead
(b) scavengers coming for the corpses
(c) devils coming to get their own
(d) witches' familiars gathering

3. How does Polly learn that Tom was lying about his dream?
(a) Joe tells Polly the truth.
(b) Huck tells Polly the truth.
(c) Joe's mother tells Polly the truth.
(d) Sid finds out what happened and tells on Tom.

4. What reason does Tom give for not letting Polly know he was alive?
(a) Tom didn't want to betray his fellow pirates, Joe and Huck.
(b) Tom didn't want to spoil the effect of appearing at the funeral.
(c) Tom didn't want Sid and Mary to find out he was alive.
(d) Tom thought Polly would be angry if she knew he'd been to the house.

5. What makes Aunt Polly able to forgive Tom anything?
(a) Joe tells her that Tom was the one that convinced them to come back.
(b) She remembers how she felt when she thought Tom was dead.
(c) Tom tells her that the only reason he came back was to stop her from grieving.
(d) She discovers the note in his jacket, so she knows he wasn't lying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom do that makes Becky cry?

2. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?

3. What does Tom do with the tonic?

4. What does Tom ask Becky?

5. What does Tom "die" of during the game?

(see the answer key)

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